Talent Acquisition Specialist Lead (HRC3) - Remote Optional
State of WashingtonDescription
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Our vision is to ensure that “Washington state’s children and youth grow up safe and healthy—thriving physically, emotionally, and academically, nurtured by family and community."
Job Title: Talent Acquisition Specialist Lead (HRC3)
Location: Olympia, WA, Remote Optional, with periodic in-office meetings (office 1-2 days per month). Frequent in-state travel (1-2 times per month) is required with occasional nation-wide travel.
Closes: November 17th, 2024
Salary: $5,501.00 - $7,400.00 Monthly.
We are seeking a Talent Aquisition Specialist Lead to join our dynamic team in support of our Child Welfare (CW) Administration. If you are passionate about contributing to a mission greater than yourself and are excited about the potential to create something new, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
The Opportunity:
This position focuses primarily on sourcing talent for the Child Welfare Operations Division, where you will serve as the senior-level professional for advertising, sourcing, outreach, and recruiting. Child Welfare is comprised of six regions, with over 80 office locations, statewide. Turnover rates for child welfare professionals are over 30% in a typical year, nationwide. This presents a challenge in providing the quality of care that our children, youth, and families so greatly deserve. This position will have the opportunity to become intimately familiar with challenges and complexities associated with recruiting child welfare professionals, as well as really understand the hiring process. By gaining this understanding, you will be able to propose and implement creative solutions that will help fill some of our most critical positions with the best candidates and promote a positive candidate experience.
Your ability to see the bigger picture, as well as incredible attention to detail will be critical since you will get to identify and participate in various outreach and engagement activities, coordinate and execute advertising, source potential candidates for child welfare positions, and promote a positive candidate experience.
Our dream candidate has experience in outreach and recruiting. If you have experience advertising jobs, sourcing candidates, building candidate pipelines, and managing projects, we want to hear from you! Additionally, excellent writing and communication skills, exceptional people skills, and the ability to efficiently use technology will be critical to your success in this position. If you have a positive mental attitude, and a welcoming, customer service-based personality, we want to hear from you!
This position reports directly to the Talent Acquisition Manager and has the option for 100% remote work and a flexible schedule, like the rest of the talent team. You can expect up to 20% travel to local offices, community organizations, and hiring events (day trips), as well as the occasional overnight trip for nationwide events. The official office location, and equipment pickup location is Olympia, WA.
This position will oversee the work of the HRC2 Recruiters and fill-in as needed in full-cycle recruitment activities.
Some of what you will get to do:- Advertise jobs including sharing to multiple sources, both paid and free. This includes working with Hiring Managers and administrative staff to:
- Attract new applicants
- Ensure fair and competitive recruitment, assessment, and selection processes.
- Support the purchasing process and create a paid advertising program with a $70k budget.
- Identify and participate in appropriate community engagement activities, including but not limited to:
- Visiting and creating partnerships with schools
- Visiting and creating partnerships with trades
- Visiting and creating partnerships with employers
- Identify potential active and passive candidates by using senior-level sourcing techniques and actively participating in engagement techniques (including but not limited to):
- Sourcing job boards.
- Creating and maintaining a strong presence on social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc.).
- Visiting and actively participating in corporate alumni associations.
- Searching profiles on LinkedIn.
- Searching applicant profiles within NeoGov.
- Attending professional conferences (both in-person and virtual).
- Contacting passive/active candidates (cold calling).
- Seeking referrals from internal and external professionals in DCYF targeted industries.
- Develop and work in coordination with the Talent Acquisition team to create and update marketing and outreach material to represent DCYF, promote DCYF as an employer of choice that welcomes a broad/diverse pool of qualified candidates for positions and careers, and attract the targeted audience to DCYF positions.
- Create and update presentations and materials for job fairs and meetings with potential candidates.
- Meet with Child Welfare Leadership, Administrators, and Supervisors to:
- Identify future needs of the division or sections of child welfare, to get a head start on sourcing potential candidates for specific positions (easy to fill, as well as hard to fill positions).
- Create the best approach to find passive/active candidates.
- Create timelines and paths to success, for sourcing ideal candidates (best places to source, advertise, etc.).
- Implement the plan that was identified, to drive passive/active candidates to apply for CW positions.
- Create “out of the box” tactics to source and identify the best possible candidates, in collaboration with CW Leaderships, Administrators, Supervisors and Talent Manager.
- Leads HRC2s, reviews recruitments, develops plan and approach to hiring the process.
- In conjunction with hiring managers, draft and post recruitments as needed.
Required Qualifications:- Equivalent education/experience totaling six (6) years, as outlined below.
- A Bachelor’s degree with a focus on business, human resources, social or organizational behavioral sciences, or related field.
- Two (2) years of human resource experience performing:
- Hiring manager consultation and education.
- Candidate sourcing and candidate screening to identify top talent.
- Networking and using social media to market and advertise a position, an agency, or an event.
- Contacting passive/active leads.
- Utilizing an online recruiting system/applicant tracking system.
In addition to those required qualifications, our ideal applicant will also have some or all of the following:- Four or more years of progressively responsible experience as a professional HR Consultant with the State of WA, where an essential function of the job was sourcing potential candidates for positions.
- Previous demonstrated experience interpreting and applying state and federal employment and benefit laws.
- Previous demonstrated experience meeting with and providing consultation to leadership/management.
How do I apply?
Complete your applicant profile and attach the following documents:- Letter of interest describing what makes you the best fit for this position based on your education and experience.
Supplemental Information:The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is committed to Washington’s children and youth growing up safe, healthy, and thriving. We invite all candidates to join us in our mission to create a diverse and equitable workplace that reflects the communities we serve. If you are excited about this role but you believe that your education and/or experience might not align perfectly with every qualification in the job posting, we encourage you to apply anyway.
The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national origin, honorably discharged veteran or military status, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or the use of a trained service animal by a person with a disability.
This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies.
This position requires a valid driver's license.For more information about this position or if you need an accommodation throughout the application/interview process, please contact Steven Loduha at steven.loduha@dcyf.wa.gov. If you're experiencing technical difficulties creating, accessing, or completing your application, call NEOGOV toll-free at (855)524-5627 or email support@neogov.com.
Persons needing accommodation in the application process or this announcement in an alternative format may call (360) 902-2276 or the Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) at (800) 833-6388.
- Advertise jobs including sharing to multiple sources, both paid and free. This includes working with Hiring Managers and administrative staff to: